In the interests of keeping things fluid, I've framed it as a story, of a kind fictioning being one way-one technique-for mobilising the possibilities of sensing otherwise, and for folding a more-than-human sensitivity forward into the creation of something new. 1 It begins in the fluid middle: the membrane on which sense is written, a threshold where relations and possibilities emerge and dissolve. This paper experiments with a lyrical format to think through the task of making more-than-human sense, and to explore the work and promise of creative and speculative techniques in going above "the turn of experience". Practices, Politics and Ethics of Sensitive Media' at the University of Potsdam, Germany. Presented as part of the panel on 'More-than-human sensing' for the 2021 conference, 'Other(ing) Sensing. This book focuses particularly on Latin American artists who are engaging with scientific ideas and methods to create new imaginaries for a post-anthropocentric world, in dialogue with decolonial thinkers and political ecologists from the region. They do so by seeking alternatives to the logic of extractivism, emphasizing nonhuman intelligence, staging new forms of collaboration and co-creativity beyond the human, and (re)connecting Western science with other forms of knowledge and practice. They may also be understood to ‘decolonize’ science in the Latin American context. These transdisciplinary projects shed light on how artistic practices may communicate, extend, supplement, and challenge scientific ideas. Decolonizing Science in Latin American Art assembles a new corpus of art-science projects by Latin American artists, ranging from big-budget collaborations with NASA and MIT to homegrown experiments in artists’ kitchens. In a surge of publications on the subject, few focus on regions beyond Europe and Anglophone world. Projects that bring the ‘hard’ sciences into art are increasingly being exhibited in galleries and museums across the world.
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